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The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review
Contributor(s): Lefebvre, Benjamin (Author)
ISBN: 1442644931     ISBN-13: 9781442644939
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
OUR PRICE:   $61.20  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Canadian
- Literary Collections | Canadian
- Literary Criticism | Women Authors
Dewey: 813.52
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.4" W x 9.3" (1.80 lbs) 464 pages
Themes:
- Sex & Gender - Feminine
- Cultural Region - Canadian
 
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Publisher Description:

Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.

Volume Three: A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery's critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers' contradictory opinions about her work, she nevertheless cared enough to keep a large percentage of them in scrapbooks as an archive of her career. This volume presents more than four hundred reviews from eight countries that raise questions about and offer reflections on gender, genre, setting, character, audience, and nationalism, much of which anticipated the scholarship that has thrived in the last four decades.

Each volume in The L.M. Montgomery Reader is accompanied by an extensive introduction and detailed commentary by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin Lefebvre that traces the interplay between the author and the critic, as well as between the private and the public Montgomery.

Contributor Bio(s): Lefebvre, Benjamin: - Benjamin Lefebvre, editor of The L.M. Montgomery Library, is director of L.M. Montgomery Online. His publications include an edition of Montgomery's rediscovered final book, The Blythes Are Quoted, and the three-volume critical anthology The L.M. Montgomery Reader, which won the 2016 PROSE Award for Literature from the Association of American Publishers. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.